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(Rhino)   www.rhino.com   Seminal avant-garde rock band Jane's Addiction, proudly bred and spread in Los Angeles, is celebrating the reunion of its original lineup with a co-headlin more...

(Alligator)   www.alligator.com     Let's put our cards on the table; how many great (not just “acceptable,” but truly great) white blues singers can you name? Don't h more...

(Alligator)   www.alligator.com   On this her ninth album, Janiva Magness shows that she is not only one of the greatest female blues vocalist in America today but one of our greate more...

(self-released)   www.jannklose.com   The word "transcultural" only begins to describe Jann Klose's journey to date. The German native grew up in Kenya, high schooled in Cleveland a more...

(Polyvinyl)   www.polyvinylrecords.com   Ever since rock and roll was invented, people have come up with ways to make it better - from multiple drummers to guitar armies to studio e more...

(Polyvinyl)   www.polyvinylrecords.com   Post-Nothing, the Japandroids' debut album, was 2009's finest pileup of distortion, attitude and submerged tunes not to be made by a reunite more...

(Vice)   www.vicerecords.com     Orange County punk used to come bathed and sunbaked in the raging tones of TSOL. So then comes the deadpan meeting ground of the Shaggs and th more...

(Wantage USA)   www.wantageusa.com     Robot rock steeped in snarky art rock shenanigans (two-piece, tape loops and arguably "lo-fi"), bong hits (Crass' Penny Rimbaud's Burrou more...

(Exotic Recordings)   www.exoticrecordings.com   Keyboardist, composer, bandleader and soulman Jon Reid, a/k/a Jar-e, hails from the western North Carolina mountain climes of Ashevi more...

(The Shot Entertainment)   www.theshotentertainment.com   www.jar-e.com   North Carolina songwriter Jar-e may still be known as "Jon Reid" by his family, but his friends call more...